[Coco] What items don't belong in the CoCo auction!

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 08:00:25 EDT 2014


On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> I wonder why they only allowed 10 256-byte sectors per track, vs. 18
> sectors with CoCo formatting?  Seems very wasteful of disk space.  Were
> they using single-density disks?

The original TRS-80 format was indeed SS/SD.  Tandy released an add-on 
board for the Model I that upgraded to DD.  Later machines (e.g. Model 4) 
could do both formats.



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